How to import without merging?

I’ve imported 50+ categories before now and haven’t lost a single one.

@esmmi, probably any of theses categories had the same name “slug”. In my case I got it merged. The categories is like that:

WP1
Rock
– Bass Heads
– Snear Heads

WP2 content to import to WP1
Jazz
– Bass Heads
– Snear Heads

When imported, it merges the categories with the same name and I got this:

After import
Rock
– Bass Heads
– Snear Heads
Jazz

I’m fairly sure that the sample data import contains at least 1 (or more) similar category trees specifically to test for this kind of issue. I’ve used that import file a number of times and I’ve not had any merges.

I made a test with this sample and got the same error. If you want, try this:

These are the original categories on the file:
aciform
– sub
Parent
– Child 1
– – Child 2

Before import, create these categories:
UniqueXYZ
– sub
– Child 1
– – Child 2

Now put some posts inside the new categories just to check after and now import the file. You will got this kind of categories after import.

aciform
Parent
UniqueXYZ
– sub
– Child 1
– – Child 2

See, you loose the relation between sub, Child 1 and Child 2.

I found a ticket on Bug Trac, more than one year ago, it’s a deffect. I made a workaround renaming all the categories before import as “… i1, … i2, … i3, …”, to make everything unique and rename it again to remove the “i…” after import the content. It’s not a solution but works.